McCamly/McComly & Graham in Hillsborough late 18th early 19th Century

Hi Don,

Thank you very much for your message. I hope that someone with a connection to this family or information on them contacts you.

In the meantime have you tried looking at church records in Hillsborough to see if you can find any information on the family?

Most Catholic records are held locally so you may need to write to the local parish priest for possible assistance. One website that you may find useful is the Irish Times where they give an overview of what records are available in specific parishes. It also shows you where copies of the records are available. Hillsborough civil parish belongs to the Catholic parish of Blaris. For records there follow this link:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseaction=showidrecords&CityCounty=Down&parish=Blarisr&churchid=451

Most surviving Church of Ireland records are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. Here are their websites: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/ and http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42

Lists of these surviving registers can also be found at the National Library of Ireland.

Civil registration began in Ireland in 1864 so any births, deaths or marriages in the family after this date would be recorded in these records. Civil records are available from the General Register?s Office in Dublin. Here is their website:

http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm

You can search the indexes to these records online at:

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347

You could also try searching in Griffith's Valuation. This is a property valuation survey that was carried out in Ireland 1848-64. It doesn?t give any genealogy information but  can be used as a census substitute for the years after the Great Famine as censuses prior to 1901 were destroyed. Here are a list of the McCamley?s that were recorded as living in Down:

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=65&Submit.y=16&Submit=Submit&familyname=McCamley&firstname=&baronyname=&countyname=DOWN&unionname=&parishname=

There may also be record of McCamley?s in the 1901/1911 census records here:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

Some other websites that you may find useful are:

The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx

The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/

The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm

Family Search: www.familysearch.org

Genealogy Links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/down/index.html

Alternatively, you could contact the Ulster Historical Foundation for assistance, however a fee may apply. Here is their email: enquiry@uhf.org.uk

Please be patient - as our programme has only begun to rollout across the island of Ireland and volunteers in some areas may not yet be organized.

Kind regards,    

Genealogy Support